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Beautiful and Islamic: the new look on the catwalk

islamoyankeeJuly 2, 2010

Beautiful and Islamic: the new look on the catwalk – News, Fashion – The Independent. “Islam has a really amazing definition of beauty,” she says. “Hijab is about how a woman can be beautiful without placing overt emphasis on her sexuality. In western society it’s quite difficult to separate the two. I design clothes that are beautiful in the way that women find each other beautiful.” Tajima made a name for herself amongst fellow Muslim fashionistas through her blog Style Covered, which receives about 2,000+ hits a day from women looking for tips on how to look good in hijab.…

Art

Princess Hijab – Putting on the Veil

islamoyankeeJune 20, 2010

Putting on the Veil – The Wooster Collective – GOOD. I’ve also found that my media, guerrilla art, presents a mystery and an impishness consistently missing from serious discourses on the hijab. The terms “hijabizing” or “hijabism” continue to define my work.

Art

#Boston and #NYC Dance Event: Forest

islamoyankeeMay 25, 2010

My dear friend Wendy Jehlen is doing a dance performance called “Forest“ Fri, June 18 8pm Sat, June 19 3pm & 8pm BU Dance Theater on Buick Street at 915 Commonwealth Ave. tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12 available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html ANIKAI Dance invites you to escape the confines of our urban world, and step into the ever-evolving, unpredictable world of the forest – a landscape unfamiliar and alluring, full of serenity and sensuality, conflict and metamorphosis. Forest is but a moment, a small part of a longer, eternal story. FOREST is choreographed by Wendy Jehlen…

Art

NYC Art Show: Amygdala Machine I

islamoyankeeMay 25, 2010

Created by my friend Kate Howe: AMYGDALA MACHINE I: Tomorrow Kate Howe 348 St Marks Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11238 May 13 – June 19, 2010 Standard procedure saves time and energy in every arena. I once read that when we get out of the shower, we towel ourselves off in the same series of motions, taking the same amount of time, every day. We take the same route to work and wear our heels out in the same lop-sided way. We date the same people in different bodies, respond the the same ad campaign in a different season, repeat the…

Art Politics

Asia Society Releases Report on the Arts

islamoyankeeMay 10, 2010

The Asia Society has released a new report “Making a Difference through the Arts: Strengthening America’s Links with Muslim Communities in Asia.” I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but it looks very interesting. From the Executive Summary: This report offers examples of the diverse ways in which stakeholders in cultural development and ex- change initiatives in and with Asian Muslim communi- ties have built successful projects by drawing on cultur- ally grounded knowledge and strategies . The panoramic range of projects, the impressive degree of imagination and innovation with which they have been designed and carried out, and the…

Art

Battle of Karbala – Painting – Brooklyn Museum

islamoyankeeJanuary 27, 2010

Art

NYC Event: Play on Iraq Vets

islamoyankeeNovember 10, 2009

Intersections International is hosting a play called “Nothing Means Nothing.” Join us for a special showing of “Nothing Means Nothing,” a veteran’s play by Larry Winters. This presentation showcases some of the hidden questions of veteran’s lives, and will be held at Intersections, 274 Fifth Avenue (btwn 29th & 30th).

Art Inter-faith

Bismillah Raven

islamoyankeeOctober 13, 2009

I am always looking for interesting artwork, especially as it relates to Islam. Below is the Arabic phrase “bismillah,” “in the name of God,” done in a Native American style. Details from the artist are here, and an article about the piece can be found here (another take here). taken from here.

Art Books

Of Concentration Camps and Comic Books

islamoyankeeJuly 30, 2009

Naif Al-Mutawa, mastermind behind the 99, writes a column about growing up in NY. If we can show how perceptions are unfairly formed, we can take great leaps in a single bound towards transforming them. And what better characters to explore such issues than Superman and Batman who were created by Jewish young men from New York and Cleveland at the height of anti-Semitism and THE 99 who were created by a Muslim during the height of Islamophobia (and who went to camp with a bunch of Jews from Cleveland and New York!).

Art Literature

Review: Domestic Crusaders

islamoyankeeJuly 17, 2009

I have to imagine that writing fiction about Muslim-Americans is a thankless task. People from outside the community are already pre-disposed to like it or hate it. Unless you’re Rizwan Manji, Aasif Mandvi, or Aziz Ansari, you can’t quite draw the crowds to be able to change minds. Of course, you also get heat from inside the community. People will invariably say “it doesn’t represent me,” “it’s not my experience.” These same people will simultaneously identify with Lady Chatterly’s Lover, and support Umrao Jaan Ada, but will not have empathy with Muslim-American characters because it is not exactly their experience.…